#imagine someone dying on the beach from a shark attack and the paramedics are there and there's a 13 year ol

[20dollarlolita]

Cheap coord challenge pt 1

Coord total: $146 | Cumulative coord total: $146 Other entires will be posted on the "20dollarlolita coord challenge" tag.

Okay, cheap coord challenge, first entry. There will be several, but I don't want to wait and make one master post.

So, the rules I'm following for the least expensive coord challenge: 1) Each coordinate's value must include all items being worn except for petticoat and medical devices. If we're including glasses and hearing aids and shoe orthodics then these are going to get expensive really fast. 2) the challenge of "how many coords can I make for the cost of a really expensive coord" only has to count an item one time. If I wear the same shoes for seven coords, the cumulative total only has to add the shoes one time.

This wasn't the first one I wanted to do, but it's the first one that I ended up wearing, so here we are. This is $146, with 41% of that total being the cost of the shoes.

Blouse: Bodyline, $30 Skirt: $6, one of the first lolita things I made Overskirt and headbow: $20? Both of them were small items from lucky packs from Souffle Song, so I'm not sure how to count that Tights: $10 Wrist cuffs: $4, diy'd while I was at work specifically for this Jewelry: $16 from thrift stores, handmade, or the 14 years of my life that I had to go to Sunday school plus the year in confirmation class that I went through to be given the cross as a reminder of the pledge that they allowed a literal child to take to vow to spread the word of the Lord which became a vow that I never really honored, so this cost me disappointing Jesus, but didn't cost any money Shoes: $60

If we don't count the shoes, we're down to $86, and I'm not sure if it's fair to count the shoes since I wear them literally everywhere (they're the shoes that have the fancy ankle orthodics so they're my saily shoes). But including these is in the rules, so we're counting them. The whole reason I decided to sort of take a punk route with this coord was because I was going to wear those boots anyway. I started this look out by going to get breakfast with my grandma, and that original iteration is the look on the right of the collage with the flowered tights.

The thing that I really like about this look is how flexible all the pieces are. I have a lot of ideas planned out for this challenge and almost all of these pieces except the skirt are getting reused somehow. I also really like doing pink and black together, because that's what tiny me wanted lolita to be all the time. I also have a lot of nostalgia for that skirt just because I was so proud of it when I made it. The bow has a little book charm on it that says Holy Bible on one side and has a Chi Rho on the other side. I usually just hope that no one notices that, but today I went fuck it and wore a cross. I usually don't do that (religion is my sister's thing, not mine) but it made my grandma happy.

Things I'm not happy about: Boy is that skirt boring and way too long. It's so hard to work with but I'm so fond of it because babylita me made it. I wish I had something that reads a bit more punk than the blouse for this? I'd really like a graphic cutsew instead of a button-up blouse. These wrist cuffs are the reason I now understand exactly how long of a wrist cuff is too long, and they also need some adornment. I'm so incredibly tired of wearing those boots all the time, and I'd love to use some shoes that really take the look over the top a bit more. I also used to be able to tease my hair up pretty big and get this cool look, but since I've cut it shorter I've needed to re-learn the art of alternative hair teasing and instead it just looks like a 1960's flip hairstyle.

I wasn't planning on starting the challenge with an experimental coord, but I didn't decide what day my grandma's birthday was, did I?

Y'all know the rules, concrete is good and you can submit it anonymously if you want.

#20dollarlolita coord challenge #20dollarlolita coord posts #punk lolita #Punk lolita? #It's not based on Japan's punk rock movement so is it punk lolita #or does adding a couple of crosses and fishnet tights not make a punk inspired coord #SERIOUSLY WHY DID ANYONE LET ME TAKE A LIFELONG VOW AT THE AGE OF 13 #HOW DOES BEING 13 INDICATE THAT YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO BE CONFIRMED IN CHRIST #btw I've literally been trained in how to baptize people and the various emergency situations where that might be necessary #imagine someone dying on the beach from a shark attack and the paramedics are there and there's a 13 year ol #with a fucking bottle of dasani #who is like yo i can baptize you since you're almost dead #WHY IS THAT NORMAL #got a cool cross out of it tho #20dollarcoordposts